Posted on 03/06/2026 5:50:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
In the movie Tombstone, after the famous shootout at the OK Corral, bad-guy Johnny Ringo went looking for Wyatt Earp. Ringo was going to kill him. Instead, Val Kilmer, playing the part of Doc Holliday and friend of Wyatt, met Ringo and delivered the movie’s most famous line: “I’m your huckleberry.” The phrase “I’m you huckleberry” was 19th-century slang for “I’m the guy you’re looking for,” “I’m your man,” or “Bring it on.” It was a macho, braggadocious expression used when confronting an adversary.
Macon, Georgia has lots of huckleberries. That’s unfortunate, because when two huckleberries meet, bad things usually happen. That’s exactly what occurred last week in the hoods of Macon. Over several days’ time, there were eight, maybe nine, shootings that left five dead and another nine injured.
The shootouts in and around Macon’s OK Corral (the Unionville neighborhood) began Saturday, Feb 21, at 12:30 A.M. (one man shot). Then Shaviz Adams was shot and killed at 6:58 P.M., and at 7:24 P.M., another man was shot. The day ended with three people shot at 11:59 P.M.; one victim was only seven years old.
Sunday picked up where Saturday left off. At 1:29 A.M., a seventeen-year-old male was shot and injured. Then the serious huckleberries came out at 3:35 A.M., on Moseley Ave, and three men were blasted into eternity. That was followed by a 6:30 A.M. shooting that left two more wounded. The weekend’s final shooting victim was a 55-year-old woman, shot at 2:37 P.M.
However, the huckleberries weren’t finished. On Wednesday, in south Macon, a 45-year-old man was shot and killed. If you’re counting, that’s five dead and nine wounded in nine separate shootings, all in a city of 155,000.
Fortunately, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) does good work apprehending the perps.
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And yet, crime is nearly unheard of in Nepal.
I’ve walked 100 miles solo through the middle hills and never even heard of a Nepali committing a crime.
Nepali towns are where everyone knows everyone, and if there is a miscreant who steals or assaults, the townies will chase him down and beat him senseless. There is no allowance for anyone to put the stain of “Chor Lagio” (roughly, “crime ridden”) on a town.
So IQ is not the thing. It is, in my opinion, culture and fatherlessness. All Nepali fathers are with their children.
Young black men? Not quite. It is the whole rotten culture. Watch any video of blacks behaving badly. Old, young, male, female. Makes no difference. They are all explosively violent over the most mundane things. It is the culture they created because they like living that way. No amount of welfare or midnight basketball will change it. Democrats support and condone it, and judges don’t punish them. The best is to live as far away from them as possible and leave them to their own devices.
Black women need to stop rutting like feral animals with any thug that comes along.
Is that science?
Could be, but I have no evidence.
Hmm. Interesting.
Q: Source, Please? And Somalia and Sudan’s numbers?
It is a very big multi-generational problem.
But papering over it with welfare EXACERBATES the problem.
So let’s deal with the root cause, no matter the number of generations it takes. Perpetuity is a very long time.
See my #50 for a potential tonic.
YMMV.
I was going to reply to you, TTFlyer, not because I think your response was unreasonable, but because I suspected you might have reached that conclusion without all the information from the book.
It is one of the flaws of AI-I last read that book about probably about six years ago, which is why I asked Grok to summarize it.
That book was written in 2005, more than 20 years ago, approximately 7% of the Black population at that time (about 12% of the total US population) was foreign-born in 2000 (around 2.4 million people out of ~36 million Black Americans). This figure comes from later analyses (e.g., Pew Research summaries of Census and related data).
Of that 7% foreign born just over a million blacks were NOT either natively born American citizens or from the Caribbean. This million out of a total population of around 37 million at that time in the US (2.7% of all blacks in the USA) was composed of blacks from either anywhere in Africa, or elsewhere in the world besides America or the Caribbean.
So, at no time back when Thomas Sowell was writing or researching his book was the population in question from anywhere in Africa, sub-Saharan or otherwise.
So Thomas Sowell was discussing the behavior of black Americans descended from slave populations, which was the overwhelming majority of blacks.
And, as Thomas Sowell pointed out in his book, there are distinct differences in culture and outlook between blacks in the USA descended from slaves and blacks from other areas of the world, such as the Caribbean and even Africa.
As Freeper Vaduz inferred, it is not about race, which was Sowell’s fundamental point-it wasn’t about race, a la a “Bell Curve” distribution when it comes to violence.
It is about culture.
And that was Thomas Sowell’s point-descendants of black slaves in America got their “culture” from the antebellum South, not from Africa. Modern African and Caribbean blacks do not appreciate being lumped in with American blacks. We can empirically confirm this (and have) by the weird phenomenon of blacks who think they will be fully appreciated and accepted in any African country simply on a racial basis, only to discover their skin color is too light or dark, or the structure of their facial bones reveals to an African that the American is probably descended from some other tribe.
Of course, we see that attitude here in America between American blacks descended from slaves. Oddly, but it is there.
I only know what I saw from the 1970s onwards, and I have no way to know what black society was like 100+ years ago, particularly before the Great Migration.
But the quick to anger, stand-your-ground, petty-respect culture has been “the thing” in black culture, especially among men.
It’s exemplified and glorified in rap music and black film. Hardly anyone alive today knows anything different.
Because the animal from the bush has not been bred out of them. It is genetics based.
A very black Ugandan foreign exchange student friend of our Spanish (Basque!) foreign exchange student was shocked and horrified by black American culture.
She stayed very far away from all American blacks, and only associated with the white kids who shared her values.
Her background included Christian, father at home, everyone worked and respected authority.
Light reflectivity is not the problem. It’s culture. And black America has a heavy dose of bad culture.
American blacks descended from slaves
So many whites have been slaves and much longer than blacks from around the world in many countries had slavery Rome had a long term lease on it.
Africa itself induced black slavery by selling their own people and still doing it.
Sort of like semi a domesticated animals that easily and quickly return to their wild and savage roots?
This was LBJ’s intentional design.
I found the lowest by doing an AI search on Duck Duck Go. You can do a Google seatch for “Average IQ by Country”. Some sites don’t give believable numbers to me...showing almost no countries below 90.
It is part genetics and part culture—as is almost everything with everyone. Sowell’s analysis of culture gets about half of it correct—the other half is a totally banned topic.
No-one on this thread addressed one of the critical causes of the “culture” portion. Think of it as the way a fire starts. A match and a flame (genetics and Sowell’s culture discussion) starts the fire.
What is missing in the culture piece is the gasoline poured everywhere that turns it into a flaming inferno.
Everyone has been talking about culture symptoms and not culture causes.
The key question is “where does culture come from?”.
There are two types of brainwashing that must be overcome to address the issue.
1. As noted in the thread attacking anyone as “racist” who even deals with the issue.
2. Discussion on this topic remains banned.
Until we can talk about the second topic (the gasoline) nothing can be fixed. Tinkering around the edges will not help.
Eventually the ban on the second topic will be lifted—maybe a couple of decades—maybe it will take a century.
The black women are exactly the same. They’re vicious and vile.
Let me add - I was listening to a black preacher...he pointed out that while politics IS downstream from culture, culture is downstream from the arts (or "art"), and that art is downstream from the church (Christian church).
It made a lot of sense to me...
After all, look at all the beautiful (mostly) Christian/religious art that has been produced since the middle ages. Masterpieces!
Where has culture gone since that reverent art tapered out? (ans: in the sewer)...
Something to think about, though. It deepens the perspective.
Here’s an untouchable topic introduced by way of a solution:
Cut off welfare to the mothers of fatherless children, and watch their legs snap closed!
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